Colorful Candida Diet Stir Fries

You can have so much fun creating delicious, nutritious, beautiful meals and still stick with foods that feed you without feeding that yeast overgrowth of Candida in your body. You will become an expert candida diet chef.

Your body loves healthy protein and a colorful variety of vegetables with some non- gluten grain or a bean for each meal. Candida does not love those foods. What's more, those delightful healthy foods create an environment in your gut that encourages the normal friendly gut organisms to take back the territory and crowd out those yeasty beasties.

Adding some probiotics (normal friendly organisms like Lactobacilli acidophilus and bifidus) to your regimen helps get the friendly flora re-established in your gut too.

Let's spark your creativity so that you can make every meal you eat unique (if you want to). Keep your meals adventurous by continuing to experiment with a great variety of food.

First we need to go shopping to purchase our food. At the store purchase 2 different foods from each of the 7 food groups:

2 proteins: fish and chicken

2 legume or grain: rice and garbanzo beans

2 root vegetables: onions and carrots

2 yellow or white vegetables: avocadoes and crookneck squash

2 green vegetables: snow peas and zucchini

2 red, purple or orange vegetables: purple cabbage and red bell pepper

2 green leafy vegetables: green leafy lettuce and spinach

When you arrive home with your rainbow of food, clean them by soaking most vegetables in 1 gallon of water with 1 tablespoon of 3% hydrogen peroxide for 5 minutes, root vegetables for 10 minutes. Drain the vegetables well. When you are ready to store them, wrapping them in paper towels helps absorb the excess moisture and prevents soggy food or mold growth.

Store these vegetables in refrigerator containers or plastic bags that allow some air flow to enter the containers.

That's the hard part. Now your vegetables are clean and ready to be chopped into a great variety of stir-fry combinations. Since we're using only a small amount of oil, let's use the term stir cook instead of stir fry. We just use a little olive oil or coconut oil in the pan and stir the ingredients quickly to sauté them to the crisp-tender stage.

Choose one food from each of the seven categories above, slice, dice, chop or julienne them. You will ususally only need to stir cook your food for 5 to 8 minutes. Let's make a meal from the fish, onions, crookneck squash, snow peas, red bell pepper and spinach. Stir cook all of those together and serve them over the cooked rice. Add a tasty"legal" marinade or dressing made with lemon juice, oil and spices for a zesty taste. (Legal for your candida diet.)

The next day, choose the other 7 foods to make your meal - a whole new tasty combination of food to delight your taste buds. This time let's stir fry the chicken, carrots, purple cabbage and zucchini. Use the rest of the ingredients, the lettuce, garbanzo beans, and avocadoes to make a nice salad. Shake together some olive oil, lemon juice and spices or herbs to use as a dressing for your beautiful candida diet recipe.

The third day choose a different combination of the 7 food groups for a whole new taste and visual experience. So on this day you might choose: fish, garbanzo beans, onions, avocado, snow peas, red bell pepper and spinach. Save the avocado as a garnish and stir cook all the rest of the ingredients. Voila - another taste treat for your candida diet recipe collection.

Using just these 14 different foods you could create 128 different food combinations. Now that's variety.

When you feel adventurous, choose a vegetable you don't normally like and stir cook it in the mix. That once unlikeable food may actually become a taste treat as its flavors mix with the other ingredients.

Who said a candida diet wasn't fun? Not you anymore. Have fun creating your own candida diet recipes.

About The Author Need more ideas for feeding you without feeding the yeast? Order Dr. Jo's Natural Healing Cookbook now. All of the great tips and recipes in it are perfectly safe and informative for your candida diet. Dr. Jo's own struggle with yeast overgrowth motivated her to find the ways to get rid of those miserable yeast and out of her experiences and research she wrote Dr. Jo's Natural Healing Cookbook.